Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced over one lakh internship opportunities through AICTE internship portal to enhance employability. The programme was launched by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Technical students as well as higher education students can apply for the internships provided by Salesforce, CISCO, and Mahatma Gandhi National Council for Rural Education (MGNCRE) among others.

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The State Cabinet of Karnataka approved Renewable Energy Policy (2022-27). It aims for developing the State as a hub of renewable energy generation as well as manufacturing of equipment related to renewable energy.
The policy also seeks to upgrade the renewable energy generation capacity of the State to 10 GW in the next five years. This also includes 1 GW of rooftop solar energy.

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Jammu and Kashmir is the first India’s first Union Territory to launch its MyGov platform. It was launched by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
The platform aims for citizen engagement and achieve the goal of ‘Good Governance’. It was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. At present, MyGov has more than 2.29 Crore registered users named MyGov Saathis.

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The venture capital fund (VCF) scheme was implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to help aspiring entrepreneurs belonging to SCs and OBCs new businesses. As the performance of the scheme is not satisfactory, the Ministry is set to launch a “mentorship” programme.
Named the ‘Ambedkar Young Entrepreneur-Mentor’ (AYE-Mentor) programme, the IFCI Venture, which is the VCF manager, will empanel businessmen or heads of companies or veterans of banking and financial institutions, as ‘mentors’.

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Scientists from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium have published the first complete human genome.
Researchers in 2003 released what was then claimed as the complete sequence of the human genome. But about 8% of it had not been fully deciphered. With this, more researches may be undertaken regarding disease-causing mutations.

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The Punjab Mandi Board has started sending ‘digital form J’ to the farmers from this Rabi procurement season
‘J form’ is the sale receipt of a farmer’s agricultural produce in mandis (grain market). These forms were earlier issued manually by the Commission agents. This move aims to bring transparency as well as empowering farmers and make Punjab the first state in the country to provide digitised form J in real time.

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The US-based National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate three experimental HIV vaccines based on a messenger RNA (mRNA) platform.
It is the technology used in several approved COVID-19 vaccines. This study named HVTN 302 is sponsored by NIAID while the NIAID-funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network is conducting the trial.

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Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal announced that India’s merchandise exports rose to a record high of USD 418 billion in the 2021-22 fiscal.
The rise is due to the higher shipments of petroleum products, engineering goods, gems and jewellery and chemicals. India’s goods trade (exports and imports) crossed USD 1 trillion during 2021-22. India’s imports also touched an all-time high of USD 610 billion.

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel announced that a plan is being developed to rehabilitate those people who migrated to neighbouring states during the Salwa Judum movement around 15 years ago.
Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxal operation powered by vigilante groups, was kicked off in 2005-06 in Bastar. It forced several tribals to flee and settle in neighbouring states.

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As per the official data, India’s trade deficit rose 87.5 per cent to USD 192.41 billion in 2021-22 as against USD 102.63 billion in the previous year.
While total exports during last fiscal year increased to a record high of USD 417.81 billion, imports too rose to USD 610.22 billion, causing a trade gap of USD 192.41 billion.  For the first time, India’s monthly merchandise exports exceeded USD 40 billion, reaching USD 40.38 billion in March 2022.